Happy Saturday. Every year at Christmas I send out about two dozen boxes of cookies to friends here in the UK. Today I’m mixing up all the doughs; tomorrow I’ll bake off the first five boxes, and then bake-and-send in shifts all week. One of the last things I ever bought off Amazon was an off-brand stand mixer, and boy does it help during this time of year. Here’s the chocolate chip cookies in progress:
Today, as it happens, is a perfect day to spend at the kitchen counter for two reasons: one, I’m just coming out of a bout of bronchitis; two, Britain is currently being battered by Storm Darragh. I’m about as far inland as you can get in the UK, but every now and then a 60-MPH gust slams past the house, and the rain gets hurled against the windows with a sound like a bucketful of gravel. I feel as if I’m in a ship at sea.
So what’s in this year’s cookie box? Links to recipes after the jump.